13 Airplane Preschool Trays

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Here we are – our first set of “Pre-K” Trays! We revisited a favorite past theme – Airplane Tot School! We last did it almost exactly six months ago.

We did a few things again, but have a few new things, too, namely the Little Pilots Tot Pack from Our Little Monkeys — thank you! I thought I was going to use these at a different time, so I actually printed them half of the regular size. Just mentioning this in case you notice how small the pages are!

We printed it as is, stapled and read with him (and showed him he was to draw his own picture on the last page)!

Felt Runway Play Area

It had been a long time since I had attempted a project like this!

I had an idea in my head first, looked around and ended up with this car play mat as my main source of inspiration. Thank you!

I started with a stiff sheet of black felt. I trimmed some green felt to make grass.

On the Silhouette then (while working on Christmas gifts) I cut a few things: white strips to make paint on the runway, orange cones, and a “gas pump” (made by adding the word “GAS” to a default iPod looking graphic my Cameo software came with)

I punched a hole in the top/middle and pulled a piece of shoelace through to function as the gas hose and nozzle

Airplane preschool was our first theme of the year, and first formal week of school for the past few weeks, who knew what to expect! It went quite well though.

He keeps not wanting to finish the worksheets, and we can’t decide whether to push him on that right now. What we have decided for now is that when he is ‘done’, he can hang it up on the wall. That seems to get through to him.

Dad does most of school with him but I did sit with E one evening to try to help with the Color by Number. He really took his time, and after about 20 minutes he started to lose interest. I think I may do another one that is just like this but with easier shapes to color.

His line tracing is so accurate – and he sure loves math! All good things to see.

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